Golf: Four Decades of Sports Illustrated's Finest Writing on the Game of Golf (Sports Illustrated Collector's Library)

Sports & Outdoors

Rick Reilly

Frank Deford

Herbert Warren Wind

Sarah Ballard

Dan Jenkins

Golf

Time, Inc.

SATURDAY'S AMERICA A Chronic Outrage and Giddy Passion of College Football

Football (American)

Little,Brown

<p>Juanita Hutchins, a waitress at Herb's cafe, whose daughter has run off with a drug dealer, manages to write a song that starts her on the road to country music stardom</p>

Baja Oklahoma

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Pocket

Limo

Decades before it saturated the airwaves, Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake actually invented reality TV--and skewered it into a comic novel that was way ahead of its time. Frank Mallory is a big gun at one of the four major networks. Cruising around Manhattan in his "Silver Goblet," a Rolls Royce limo, he finds that life in the fast lane is beginning to unravel. Having to deal with the departure of his wife, his boss "The Big Guy," and crazed Hollywood stars--while at the same time having to maintain a high-stakes job--all tend to make Frank Mallory, well, act out. After Frank struggles to fill all his number-four network's prime-time slots--it tends to lag behind CBS, NBC, and ABC--the Big Guy forces him to create a show called "Just Up The Street," which is meant to entertain ordinary Americans with the "real" lives of other ordinary Americans. Ultimately the resulting script causes the Big Guy's downfall and forces everyone else to return to a reality that comes without scare quotes. Limo is a hilarious, entertaining caricature of the lifestyle of the rich and famous, and provides a fascinating insight into the world of network television. Through a haze of booze and drugs, we see Frank's desperation for a normal life and real relationships. Frank Mallory's only true relationships are found in the confines of his Silver Goblet, where he finds friendship with D. Wayne Cooper and love with Sally Hawks. Only after a series of crises does Frank ultimately find himself--and the happiness that has eluded him. Originally published in 1976, Limo is now back in print, complete with a foreword from acclaimed author Jeff Guinn.

Edwin Shrake

<p>In addition to being lifelong friends, Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake are authors with reputations for writing best-sellers like Semi-Tough, Dead Solid Perfect, and Harvey Penick's Little Red Book (which has sold more than 2.7 million copies).Now Woodford is pleased to bring back into print this 25-year-old collaboration between the two authors -- a biting satire with a prescience even Nostradamus would admire.Limo is a hilarious romp that foretells what television 25 years ago would turn into by the time the new millennium rolled around. The main character, Frank Mallory, is a high-powered network TV executive charged with developing primetime programming for Chambers Broadcasting Company (CBC-TV). The focus of his energies is a breakthrough documentary-style program called Just Up the Street, which observes the typical home life of four American families. (Today, of course, the concept has been popularized by shows like Cops, America's Funniest Home Videos and MTV's The Real World.)To make CBC's TV dream a reality, Mallory must juggle his boss (who likes to be called The Big Guy), his estranged wife (who thinks psychotherapy can explain why her husband is ambitious), and the myriad of daily personal and professional pitfalls on the inside track between corporate Manhattan and Hollywood sound stages.Filled with Jenkins' and Shrake's signature wit and insight, Limo has something for everyone -- from fans of today's real life-style programming to Baby Boomers and beyond. It's pop satire at its very best. With a laugh-out-loud line on every page, the book would make -- behold the irony -- a terrific sitcom.Jenkins and Shrake hold the reprint rights. Woodford isproud to put this book in its fold. And back into print.</p>

Bud Shrake

Woodford Publishing

Texas Christian University Press

The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist

RecordedBooks

DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE

Simon&Schuster

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